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What is going on with Israel’s strategic foreign policy?

A brief analysis of recent Israeli foreign policy: regional summits a year and a half on from the Abraham Accords, plus staying neutral in face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – by Alexander Jones – Israel’s strategic foreign policy goals have always been numerous and complex, if nothing else. As the first quarter of 2022 […]

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Your guide to the top 5 mixed parties in Israel and Palestine!

– by Alex Jones – 1. Anna Loulou (Jaffa) What a tragedy! After nearly a decade of service to those who believe in peaceful acceptance of the other, Anna Loulou management recently announced they will be forced to close due to issues around noise and crowd management. The boisterous groups who drink and smoke outside […]

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“Bienvenue a Israel” – French Immigration to Israel

By Miri –  Strolling down some of the busier streets that run parallel to the sea shore in Tel Aviv’s bourgeois North one easily finds a number of small businesses, hairdressers, cosmeticians and so on displaying signs in their windows saying “Nous parlons Francais”. Similarly, passing coffee shops and restaurants in that same area one […]

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Israeli Cuisine – Beyond Falafel and Hummus

By Miri – Culture is a complicated enough term, but when we talk about a region whose history dates back thousands of years, a region which has been conquered and incorporated into numerous different empires, whose position has always been located at the crossroads of east-west trade routes, and whose current society is made up […]

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The Significance of the Olive Tree

By Miri –  Notwithstanding massive uprooting to enable settlement expansion and the concomitant building of infrastructure through the Israeli government, the olive tree is still one of the most prominent features in the landscapes of Palestine.To some, the olive tree may seem like an ordinary tree, maybe not even a particularly beautiful one, yet to […]

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The Politics of Hummus

By Miri –  Many times I am being asked why the hell I decided to move to such a crazy and often times depressing place such as Palestine and Israel and to be honest I asked myself the same question numerous times. Obviously there are quite a few factors determining the answer, one of which […]

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Microbreweries in Palestine and Israel

By Miri –  The summer of 2011 is commonly referred to as the Israeli Spring, or at least as an attempt at it. During the course of this summer, the new born social justice movement managed to mobilise thousands of people to the streets, which culminated in the biggest protests in the history of Israel. […]

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Instances of Genuine Co-Existence in Jaffa

By Miri Joint Palestinian-Israeli initiatives are not that rare anymore. In fact, in recent years they have become some sort of business, and funding agencies all over the world are keen on financing efforts at establishing dialogue and co-existance.  At the same time, those initiatives are frequently criticised, both by more conservative or right wing […]

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Vegetarian/Vegan Travels in the Holy Land

By Miri Being vegetarian or vegan in your home country or your country of residence is usually not such a big deal. It may take a little time, it may take a little practice, but at some point, no matter what the local cuisine has to offer, you will figure out and learn how to […]

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The ABC of Palestinian Hospitality

By Miri The contradictions between common representations of the Palestinian population in predominantly Western media and actual real life encounters as visitors to the country usually experience them could not be greater. Images of angry mobs burning US and Israeli flags, of masked fighters roaming the streets, shooting their guns into the air and screaming […]

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Route 443 Develops

Click here for more information about Israel’s segregated roads. Palestinian road snaking through a tunnel under route 443 The drive along route 443 became a little more interesting during the past month. Until recently Palestinian were barred from the road and could only traverse it through tunnels underneath. However the Israeli high court decreed in […]

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